Staff Profile
Yogesh Girdhar
Preferred Name: Yogesh Girdhar
Associate Scientist With Tenure
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering
Email: ygirdhar@whoi.edu
Phone: 508 289 2932
Office: Blake Laboratory 2
Address:
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
Mail Stop 07
266 Woods Hole Road
Woods Hole, MA 02543
Website: http://warp.whoi.edu
Lab/Group Site: http://warp.whoi.edu/
Education
- 2014 – PhD, Computer Science, McGill University, Canada.
- 2005 – MS, Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
- 2002 – BS, Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
Research Statement
There are many algorithmic challenges that are unique to marine robotics. Factors such as: lack of high bandwidth communications, large geographic distances, and lack of high quality maps, make a strong case for development of algorithms that can enable autonomous operation of these robots. My current and future research aims to develop such algorithms, specifically in the context of adaptive data collection tasks, and analysis of mission data.
Research Interests
Adaptived Sampling, Marine Robotics, Computer Vision, Autonomous Robotic Exploration, Semantic Perception, Bayesian Nonparametrics, Deep Learning, Surprise Detection, Data Summarization.